Mike Newell Quotes
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I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.
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Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh.
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If you are going to do a film about the South Pole, the chances are that you will film it in Hawaii! Whatever is most difficult, you will get to do it.
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I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
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It's my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting, basically.
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I have a particular love of an actor that I did work with, oddly, in 'Donnie Brasco,' who has since become a wonderful talent: Paul Giamatti. I would love to do a whole movie with Paul Giamatti.
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I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.
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I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.